In this movie we'll use the Channel Mixer not to remove all color from an…image, but to remove much of the color, and specifically, we're going to go for a…kind of the sepia tone effect.…So, again, we're looking at the original version of the photograph.…I'm going to press the Alt key, or the Option key on the Mac, click that…black/white icon and choose the Channel Mixer, and this time, I'm going to call…this layer, sienna, and then click OK.…And I'm currently seeing my Output channel set to Blue, I'm going to switch it back…to Red here, and we're not going to turn on Monochrome this time, instead we're…going to mix ingredients of all three channels into each of the three channels.…

So let's go ahead and switch the Histogram channel from Colors, in my case, to Red…so that we can keep track of that Red channel, and I'd like to go ahead and look…at the channel as well, so I'm going to switch to the Channels panel and click on Red.…And now I'm going to take down the amount that the actual Red channel,…the original Red channel is contributing to the new one.…

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7/20/2012

In this course, industry pro Deke McClelland teaches you how to build on your basic knowledge and achieve next-level effects in the premiere image-editing program from Adobe, Photoshop CS6. Discover how to seamlessly move and patch areas of a photo with the Content-Aware toolset; stretch the brightness of a scene with automatic and custom Levels adjustments; create intricate designs with text and shapes; and morph an image with layer effects and transformations. Deke also shares his techniques for sharpening details, whether addressing noise and highlight/shadow clipping or camera shake, and converting a full-color image to black-and-white. The final chapters show you how to best print and save images for the web, making sure all your hard work pays off in the final output.

Topics include:

Performing automatic retouch, scaling, and more with the Content-Aware tools